Volume 52, Issue 39 pp. 10256-10260
Communication

Haloacylation of the Quintuple-Bonded Group VI Metal Amidinate Dimers and Disproportionation of Acyl Groups to Form Carbynes

Han-Gung Chen

Han-Gung Chen

Department of Chemistry and Frontier Research Center on Fundamental and Applied Sciences of Matters, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013 (Taiwan)

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Hsiang-Wen Hsueh

Hsiang-Wen Hsueh

Department of Chemistry and Frontier Research Center on Fundamental and Applied Sciences of Matters, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013 (Taiwan)

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Ting-Shen Kuo

Ting-Shen Kuo

Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 11677 (Taiwan)

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Prof. Dr. Yi-Chou Tsai

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Yi-Chou Tsai

Department of Chemistry and Frontier Research Center on Fundamental and Applied Sciences of Matters, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013 (Taiwan)

Department of Chemistry and Frontier Research Center on Fundamental and Applied Sciences of Matters, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this author
First published: 09 August 2013
Citations: 35

We are grateful to the National Science Council, Taiwan for financial support under Grant NSC 99-2113-M-007-012-MY3. We also thank the Frontier Research Centre on Fundamental and Applied Sciences of Matters for financial support.

Graphical Abstract

Give me five: Group VI metal quintuple bonds undergo Friedel–Crafts-type haloacylation reactions. Treatment of the quintuple-bonded molybdenum complexes with one equivalent of acyl halides RCOX (R=Me, C6H5, 2-MeC6H4; X=Cl, Br), yields metal–metal quadruple-bonded acyl complexes. Subsequent treatment with a second equivalent of acyl halides causes disproportionation of two acyl groups to give dimolybdenum carbyne carboxylate complexes.

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